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My weekend in the “D” – an open letter to my DELPers

Association Advocacy Chick

Sponsored by the Detroit Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau, it was an opportunity for alumni to reconnect and haze meet the new class of DELP scholars who we affectionately call the newbies. Class of 2011-2013, congratulations and welcome. These next two years will only be as productive as you make it.

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The 6 Forces Shaping the Future of Meetings

Associations Now

As for upcycling, Indy-based People for Urban Progress takes discarded materials and uses them to create products for individual use or for the city’s benefit. Consider organizing (or getting your hotel to organize) an exercise, yoga, or meditation class before sessions begin. Olympic diving trials. Hint: Offering composting is key.).

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Emerging Market Strategy Seminars ? Chicago and DC in August.

GlowGlobally

Categories: MARCOM , Market & Bus Planning , Meetings , Product Mgmt. For the first time in history more than half the world is middle-class-thanks to rapid growth in emerging countries. MCI thanks APICS and SHRM for providing meeting rooms at their headquarters in the Chicago and Washington metro areas for these sessions.

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Challenge of Expanding & Managing Chapters in Emerging Markets – Middle East Case Study

GlowGlobally

Since 2001, emerging markets have become the world’s economic engine with annual GDP growing an average of 6 percent and a rapidly growing consumer class, driving corporations to compete for market share. Thanks to globalization virtually all developing countries are catching up.